This is one tough hardy geranium, requiring only moderate amounts of water through the long California dry summer. The plant stays green...Read More all year and increase by outward growth of the clump and by self-sown seeds. After a few years, you'll have divisions or new plants to give to friends and neighbors. It responds very well to cutting back severely after its first bloom cycle, and we sometimes get 3 cycles of bloom in a year. All in all a highly recommended plant for easy care gardening..
Simi Valley, CA (Zone 9a) | November 2011 | positive
I use this plant all the time as an accent and filler in my landscape designs.
Claridge Druce is long-lived, tolerant of many type...Read Mores of soils and sites and requires little care to grow and flourish.
If I had read the previous comment before planting this, I don't think I even would have tried, and I would have missed out! The only ca...Read Morere I've ever given this plant is that I watered it regularly for several weeks after planting it because it kept drooping in my hot, windy, sloped garden. This was almost exactly two years ago, and if I had it to do over, I'd have planted it in spring instead of summer, so it could have adjusted before the onset of summer.
Since then, I've just left it alone. I've never deadheaded it, fertilized it, nor sheared it back, and it's done just fine. (I have never had a single seedling.) It is the toughest full-sized cranesbill I've ever grown, prospering in my (as I mentioned) hot, windy, sloped garden. It just put out its first flower of the year a couple days ago. As the previous comment perhaps made clear, I don't think this is the greatest plant for those that like their gardens to look magazine-photo-perfect; it fits in well in a cottage garden, where it can be especially appreciated for its charms.
Near Lake Erie, NW, PA (Zone 5a) | May 2006 | neutral
Plant goes through stages, comes up as a very uniform mounding plant needs support as it flowers and becomes "wild" or heavy. Can be mann...Read Moreaged if cut back to ground and it will revive nicely to its mounded form.
I find it will reseed so either keep the plant cut down after flowering or have lots to give away or relocate.
I like the plant, but it needs attention to keep it looking nice.
This is one tough hardy geranium, requiring only moderate amounts of water through the long California dry summer. The plant stays green...Read More
I use this plant all the time as an accent and filler in my landscape designs.
Claridge Druce is long-lived, tolerant of many type...Read More
This is a zero care perennial. Kick some soil onto it, and leave it.
Claridge Druce can survive freezing temperatures and temps o...Read More
If I had read the previous comment before planting this, I don't think I even would have tried, and I would have missed out! The only ca...Read More
Plant goes through stages, comes up as a very uniform mounding plant needs support as it flowers and becomes "wild" or heavy. Can be mann...Read More